One of the least surprising and least interesting stories of last year was Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong doing a very typical rock and roll thing. After channelling faux rage for being cutshort on a televised show, his publicist’s blamed numerous niggling issues and off to rehab he went.
Unsurprisingly; this all took place during the release of Green Day’s album trilogy and perhaps most unsurprising of all; no one mentioned that the events which manifested into said breakdown; might explain just why mind-bogglingly average the three records are.
Originally; I was going to review each album but this proved to be problematic for the simple reason of…I only listened to ¡Uno! just days before ¡Dos! was due for release and it became apparent that all three records could be covered in one review.
That and I’m lazy, but anyway.